[Soot-list] Summary of Post-workshop discussion at SOAP

Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau marc-andre.laverdiere-papineau at polymtl.ca
Fri Jun 22 22:21:05 EDT 2012


On 06/22/2012 08:11 PM, Patrick Lam wrote:
> On 06/22/12 20:09, Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau wrote:
>> Maven is an interesting beast to deal with. I guess that Ivy is some
>> kind of compromise... keep your ant files, but have Maven download the
>> dependencies for you.
>>
>> What you mentioned is a problem if dependencies are stored in some
>> non-standard repository. But if we put our stuff in ibilio or something
>> stable like that, the artifacts should be there until the end of the
>> universe.
>
> That was not what I experienced when I tried to build stuff using Maven.
> It was very painful when maven tried to download nonexistent versions of
> external dependencies using ibiblio. I strongly disrecommend using maven.
>
> pat
>
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Well, I didn't have this situation happening to me on the projects I 
worked on.

I think we can make sure our deps are available on an additional server.

Anyways, I think we need to have the maintainers make a call on that.

-- 
Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
Étudiant au doctorat - PhD Student




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